Package: wnpp Owner: Christian Ehrhardt <christian.ehrha...@canonical.com> Severity: wishlist
* Package name : mdevctl Version : 0.50 Upstream Author : Alex Williamson <alex.william...@redhat.com> * URL : https://github.com/mdevctl/mdevctl * License : LGPL-2.1+ Programming Lang: Bash, systemd/udev integration Description : a mediated device management utility for Linux Mdevctl is a utility for managing and persisting devices in the mediated device device framework of the Linux kernel. Mediated devices are sub-devices of a parent device (ex. a vGPU) which can be dynamically created and potentially used by drivers like vfio-mdev for assignment to virtual machines. Hi, mdevctl [1] came up on the KVM Forum a few weeks ago. Eventually libvirt [2] might depend on it or integrate its functionality, but that is still too far out to predict. But until then this will on its own be a useful tool to manage mediated devices [3]. The content - so far - seems trivial enough so packaging shouldn't be too complex. In particular I'm looking for: a) a co-maintainer to review my changes, and help if I'm unavailable b) a DD to create salsa repos and sponsor uploads as needed a+b can surely be the same person, but don't necessarily have to. For (a) it might be useful to be interested in mediated devices / virtualization. If we are going to host it within a team I'd guess libvirt-team would be the closest match. [1]: https://github.com/mdevctl/mdevctl [2]: https://www.redhat.com/archives/libvir-list/2019-November/msg00823.html [3]: https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/vfio-mediated-device.txt [4]: https://salsa.debian.org/libvirt-team -- Christian Ehrhardt Staff Engineer, Ubuntu Server Canonical Ltd
